Chapter 1: What traumatic event does David recount from his court hearing?
I snapped at the court hearing. That went viral. How does a kid who shot at church get a bond if I can't get a bond now? Do not talk about the facts, sir. The bond hearing was my way to reach out to the world, tell everybody, yo, I need your help. Knowing my family stories, because my mom's side, they're all cartel.
They all were street runners, people that went to the feds, got locked up for a lot of time. And my daddy's side, they were like pastors, church people, all that. So my whole childhood, I was raised in in a tug of war of like, I like this gangster stuff. I like how they live in the flashy cars, the yachts, fur coats, how they hang out, the parties, all of that stuff. The parties were incredible.
And then on my dad's side, it was like, you got to do your first communion. You got to go to church. You got to do this.
Chapter 2: How did David's upbringing influence his choices between crime and faith?
So it was a tug of war. It was a battle, but long story short. Miami elementary school. That's when I like third grade. That's when things started getting like lit. That's when I saw Scarface for the first time. And then. Third grade? Yeah, third grade. Third grade. First it started with skipping school to play football. That's when Michael Vick was on the cover of Madden.
So we all wanted to be Michael Vick. All of us wanted to be Allen Iverson. I remember we were like the little rascals. We used to be like 20 deep skipping school to say we're going to go play football and we'll go ransack them all, champs. and get the headbands, the wristbands, trying to be the next ball player. Like we all had NFL dreams, NBA dreams.
But then it's like once that scar face and then meeting some of the cartel kids that lived in that area of Sunny Isles, because it was a lot of Colombian cartel kids there. So they were wealthy. So from a little age, my desire and my dream to be a baller, to be rich, to live like them. Because my mom didn't have, my mom worked two jobs. My mom left the street life.
So my mom was busting her ass just to pay the rent to live where we were living. So when I hung out with them, it was like, I'm watching the life, AMG wagons, boats, whatever we want. You could screw the nanny. Dad said we're allowed to screw the nanny. That's why I would always be at my homeboy's houses because they were like that. Pop said we allowed to screw the nanny.
She going to let us fuck. It was out of control. I got deeper and deeper in it. It started from stealing drugs from... from my people's brothers, my big brothers. We used to steal green, back it up, sell it at school to all the Jewish kids, all the other rich kids. And we just, it just started developing little by little. Then around like fifth grade, sixth grade, Fifth grade, sixth grade.
Jesus God almighty, bro. I was out of control. My mom would tell you. I'm not even telling y'all what I was doing in Columbia when we used to go on vacation as a kid. My mom used to not understand how the first time I seen myself shooting a gun for the first time, I was in Cali, Columbia. My mom went for a business trip to live there for a year, and we lived in this place in Cali.
And back then, the FARC was running Columbia. So if you were like a gringo American, they'll kidnap you for money. So mom was always like real strict, like stay inside the complex, go on your school bus, go to your school, private school, come back. Don't tell people you're American. But we Colombian, but she already knows what time it is. But I was already wilding out at six.
The whole hood was coming to pick me up. I was running around in cowboy boots, chasing chickens. But I seen people get shot at that age right there outside that complex. And my grandma... Ran Columbia for years, so she used to come get drunk and do everything against my mama's will and take me outside the complex. So from little, I saw a lot.
But to fast forward back to Miami, in fifth grade, I become friends with a kid that lives in a mechanic shop on West Dixie Highway that separates Aventura and Miami Gardens. I went to Ogis Elementary School. So the mechanic shop, there was an old school dude named Timmy that smoked. I always used to give him food.
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Chapter 3: What pivotal moment led David to start hustling at a young age?
So I got my birthday money, I remember, and I gave him $100. He got on the payphone outside the corner store. Timmy used to buy me like Dutchess to smoke. And I used to get him his natural ice. And we were smoking already. So Timmy got on that payphone. And then I remember a green Tahoe pulling up, throwback Tahoe.
It was a bald-headed Latino brother and an old school, like, dude had a big Mexican sombrero on that. And I get in there and Timmy gets me in the car and he's like, man, this is my nephew, man. This is my nephew. I'm putting him on. Boom, boom, boom. The dude said, oh, so you want to hustle? You want to work? I said, yeah, man. You know me, I'm already on Scarface. I'm on fifth grade.
I'm trying to get... Girls, I'm trying to get money, everything. So boom, give him the hundred. He gives us an eight ball. Timmy cooks it all on a spoon. And across the street from Ojas Elementary School, there was a huge trailer park. He just ran that trap for me. I just basically put him on so he could smoke for free, and he took over the trailer park with my little $100.
And I started piling up. He was selling. And then little by little by six. So let me stop right there. So when Dom that popped off, my mom seen I was getting crazy. So she fucked around and put me on a plane and sent me that summer, fifth grade summer, she sent me to Columbia. That was the worst thing mama could do.
When mama sent me to Columbia that summer, she done found out I was hanging out at the corner store. Her friend that owned the corner store already got shot at the corner store because the hood was wilding right there. Long story short, when she sent me to Columbia, she sent me by myself. My first time going to a third world country by myself.
But I'm already corrupt in my brain from the way I'm living. So I'm curious. I want to, boom. So when I get on the flight, I'll never forget. It was a beautiful chick, like 18 years old, said next to me. She's like, what are you doing? You're so cute. Why are you leaving? Like, where are your parents? I said, no, they sent me to Pereda because I'm behaving bad.
I'll never forget getting off at that small airport. You got to take a connection flight from Bogota to Pereda. Boom. We get over there. It's a small airport. Ghetto, Ratched. The craziest looking airport ever. Now it's not like that. Boom, get off the plane, meet all these family members I did not know from my daddy's side.
Because at the time, all I had was my grandma from my mama's side living over there. So when I went over there, my auntie that was supposed to take care of me that summer, she couldn't deal with me. I was already getting like pounds of regs for $30. of green. For $30, I was getting a whole pound. What are you doing with a pound? I was just partying because mama was sending me $50 allowance.
$50 allowance a week while I was in Columbia. So $50,000 over there was like We'll say back then it was 250,000 pesos. You feel me? So I'm using all of that to buy work. In front of my auntie's house, mind you, I'm just going through puberty. In front of my auntie's house is bruffles. In that part of Colombia, Pereira is known for their whorehouses, the hooker spots.
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Chapter 4: How did David's experiences in Colombia shape his criminal journey?
Like one room was like on some dominatrix stuff. And then a girl came out in the towel. Beautiful. And we locked eyes. And I was like, damn, she's beautiful. And I froze. And I remember the lady telling me like, yo, come on. Go get your soccer ball, little boy. So I'm like, damn. I don't want to leave this place. I get my soccer ball. And I run out that bit. Happy.
I'm the happiest kid in the world. I get back on there. And then after that, I was like... I met like a pimp. His name was Rayo. He was the one who taught me how to Mac. So he's like, man, you want to go in there? I'll get you in there because I used to smoke at a park named El Parque Olaya. What's Mac?
Mack, like, Mack-ing is like pro-swaying a woman, like, oh, you screw everybody in the hood for free, you might as well do it for money. I've never been the type to be a gorilla pimp or smack a girl and be like, go sell your coochie, because that's, regardless, at the end of the day, I don't do that no more, because I learned my lesson, because even, you could be pimping women,
And then they're really willing to sell their bodies on their own. And then they get caught by police and they'll lie and be like, yo, he's torturing me. And so they get off the hook and you get trafficking. So if you're not a manager and in the porn industry, don't think about being a pimp. It ain't worth it. You might sabotage your whole life. So the guy teaches you how to Mac.
He teaches me how to Mac. He literally, every morning at 7 in the morning, man, he's up, coffee and empanada, and we're walking around downtown. I'm like... 12 years old and don't even got hairs on my nuts yet. And he's teaching me like out of 10 females you holla at, you're going to get at least two. So his game was like, yo, what's up, mommy? I got an old man that gives you 80,000 pesos.
We're going to split it 40-60. You feel me? You just got to come with me to this motel over here. He'll say that same line to about 10 females and he'll catch about two. And he's doing this to random women every day walking around the center of the downtown. It's a numbers game. Yeah, a numbers game. It's out of control. He's consistent, though, from 7 in the morning to lunchtime.
That's what's getting done. From lunchtime to 4, he trying to round up the bread for the motel room. And then when the motel room running, he getting all them people there. Long story short, we did that until we ended up with a four-bedroom house and opened our own brothel in that three-month period on there for the summer. This is not what your mother had in mind. Hell no.
I learned how to buy a brick, a white for $800, going on a donkey with them boys, with paramilitans. I got my first tattoo on my neck in Medellin. I was already dealing with. Your poor mother, man. Well, my mom went to visit me. She went to go visit me over there, and she was like, what the hell? She's like, people don't even go in taxis by themselves over here. They get kidnapped.
How are you in all the hoods, and everybody loves you and knows you? My nickname out there was Miami, so all the Colombians would be like, Miami. And I already had gave all the slum kids like Nike shoes and hoodies. So they ready to kill somebody, wipe them down about me, whatever. And then I'm already buying the pounds. and giving everybody the stuff. So it was like, I was helping all the poor.
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Chapter 5: What happens during the police standoff?
Because he trying to get on me. He trying to get me down. He trying to get me in the house to beat me. The neighbors seeing all of this. They call 911. We have a standoff. Police telling me, what's up? What's going on, man? I'm like, man, I'm not going in that house. You just tried to kill me, and I don't know what sick shit y'all got going on. You probably were.
So while all that's going on, Remy ain't even getting put in cups. He get on his phone and call like a detective, like, yo, this man tripping on my roof. You need to get down here. Then one of the main detectives come over there.
Chapter 6: How does David describe his hospitalization experience?
This happened 2014, 2014. I think it was around November. I think it was around November. I was hospitalized at Aventura Hospital. For what? Use of force. And I didn't get charged with no crime. I understand, so they come, so let's go back. Long story short, we're having to stand off, I'm on the roof, I'm trying to explain to the cop, yo, this is what went down, bro.
The man trying to put me in this house, told me some gay shit, and there's blood under the carpet. I'm not going back in there. Get my son's pictures out of that house. Get my stuff out of that house, please. I just want to get out of this house. Officer's like, come down.
Chapter 7: What led to David's realization about the corrupt police system?
Crooked cop. This cop been at me for years. Miami Gardens has good cops that I know. They got bad cops. And then you got some racist cops. You got corrupt, you got good, and you got racist cops. So long story short, the community knows me because I'm a troublemaker. So people know how to deal with me. So long story short, some officers that know how to deal with me pull up.
Then the racist one and the nasty one that's corrupt. So long story short, the dude Remy had called is a detective. So we have him stand up. Come on, come in the house. Show us what you're talking about. I ain't going down there, bro.
Chapter 8: How does David plan to turn his life around after prison?
So you could do whatever you want in there. Kill me in there. Plant a gun on me. I'm not going in that house. I done been through enough with the CIA cases, all of that. I'm not going in there. And I'm already homeless. So my mind stayed with like, I'm not going down there. So the officer, the nasty one, he throws the ladder up. I throw the ladder back down. Ain't coming up here, bro.
You feel me? You ain't coming up here, bro. I'm good, man. I'm chilling. He throws it up again. They hold it, support it. He comes up there. He goes to taser me on the roof. I still got the pictures in a folder. He tasered me so bad that the pins, because I had no shirt, the pins melted through my flesh because he kept pressing it. Left me humongous holes. Pure flesh. Pure meat. So bomb.
They put their knee on me. They tie me up. They restrain me on the gurney. They bring me down. While they're bringing me down on the gurney, they get a 911 call. And they leave me there with the firefighters and the ambulance. So the firefighters and the ambulance like, yo, what are we going to do with him? Well, we got to take him to the hospital. They didn't use the force of him.
We got the officer's name. We going. Boom. They drop me off at Aventura Hospital. They do... They put me in a three-bed, three-day thing. You feel me? I guess they put it as like a crisis or something because the police didn't arrest me or nothing. So boom, three days, they let me out. I get all the proof. The hospital report says, oh, Officer Sterling dropped you off at the hospital.
Boom, bing, bomb. Everything's there. So back then I was ignorant. I didn't know about law. I didn't know about statutes of limitations. I didn't know that there's a timeframe which you could sue the police department for negligence and police brutality and use of force if they didn't arrest you. It's like a two-year period. I didn't know none of that.
So by the time I realized none of that, the lawsuit was out the way. But I had a lawsuit at that period because they messed me up bad and I never got charged with a crime. So boom. Now, besides me going through everything I'm going through in the hood with drug dealers trying to kill me, now I know these police are like, I'm homeless, these police trying to kill me, all this going on.
So now it's like, I feel like my back against the wall. I'm beefing with this CI, Remy, whatever he doing, because he done admitted that he's snitching on them boys who beat him in that house.
that's the other reason why that popped off in the house because he was like yo and by the way because they did that i decided to work with ice so i don't get deported and i just got to tell them how they run they they squatting organization and all of that he felt that comfortable with me after i told them i was going to give him all that furniture for his family so he decided when he was drunk he could open up to me yo i started cooperating could tell them how they squad houses change the locks and rent them out and i was like yo
I called fool. I was like, bro, you know this man telling on you. And then that's when all that shit just started getting ugly. You know what I'm saying? So that's what led to that. And then eventually other things went down in the hood. I blacked out. It was on January 22nd. The dude I told you that robbed the rapper Briscoe.
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